![]() However, it is at the party where everything starts to change for Ben. Their long-simmering feud-for Ben, a struggle to be accepted by America and therefore reject his Filipino heritage and for Roland, a quest to give his children a better life than he had-threatens to boil over and ruin the elaborate eighteenth birthday party of Ben’s sister Rose (Bernadette Balagtas). ![]() However, his plans come into conflict with those of his strict immigrant father Roland ( Tirso Cruz III), a postal worker intent on seeing Ben become a doctor. Synopsis īen Mercado ( Dante Basco) is a talented high school senior who enrolls in a prestigious arts institute in order to realize his dreams of becoming an artist. The film grossed a very respectful $1.745 million in limited theatrical release in the United States. The title of the film refers to the traditional coming-of-age ceremony accompanying a young woman’s 18th birthday in Filipino culture. It is also one of the first feature films to take place within the Filipino American community, one of the largest Asian ethnic minorities in America. It is the first Filipino American film to be released theatrically nationwide, starting in March 2001 in the San Francisco Bay Area and ending in November 2002 in New York City. ![]() The Debut is a 2000 American independent drama film directed and co-written by first-time Filipino American filmmaker Gene Cajayon.
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